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nip05 badges are probably a mistake. One of the most common questions I get is “how do I get verified” and “please verify me”. Very rarely will nip05 badges mean anything close to verification. Maybe for rare cases like mine where my domain is the same as my username, but most of the time it just means “some random domain points to my pubkey”.

Thinking I should remove the badge altogether.

johnny 2y ago

Wouldn’t it be better not to have something like “I’m verified” and for everyone to be free to decide whether to do it or not? The idea in #nostr of your being able to communicate anon but that there is something that guarantees others that you are human writing and not a bot is wonderful.

But it wouldn’t be better to be able to identify the bots and force them in some way to verify themselves as bots. This way, the rest of us will be able to know who we interact with.

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